Description | Writer unknown. Beginning with accounts for payments for the funeral of John Pierce, rent and carpenters and joiners; all paid to Benjamin Osgood. Also includes notes on coach timetables for London and Tandragee, seeds sown, medicinal recipes etc.
Accounts are a combination of personal household (clock repairs, food, fabric) and some relating to dividends from various stocks. There are also notes on the national and naval debt.
Other interesting passages include comments on the Knight family (beginning with Francis Knight who died in Holborn in 1707) and a page headed "The Ages of the Crowned Heads & Other Princes of Importance in the General System of Europe Anno 1852" |